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To: straight life who wrote (33)	2/9/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: Greg B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85

Taichi, Good question and I hope someone could clarify. The article did mention that BT will seek U.S. partners to offer the new services in North America. This could mean the birth of competition with current wK carrier partners sometime in the future. It appears that MSFT and BT are pioneering the carrier-managed "data center" model. The other approach is to outsource the "data center" to wK, which according to the press release, is positioned to serve carriers in the U.S. market. (I do recall MSFT suggesting it will forge "additional partnerships" directly with carriers around the time of the wK announcement.) Adding to your question about wK's involvement, is how much flexibility does wK have with the business strategy and geographic boundaries? Obviously, getting up and running in the U.S. is top priority. But given available resource bandwidth, could wK enter into a partnership with a foreign carrier? For example, with the ATI/VOD merger, one concludes that Vodafone would want to provide wK services to its corporate/individual clients outside the U.S. Can wK do this? Can wK help setup its data center? Anyone know? Cheers, Greg